Egryn Lights

Unusual lights seen near the Welsh village of Egryn in the winter of 1904
which may offer a clue as to the nature of some reports of unidentified
flying objects. According to one eyewitness: "Between us and the hills,
apparently two miles away, there suddenly flashed forth an enormous luminous
star with intensely brilliant white light and emitting from its whole circumference
dazzling sparkles." Another said: "[It was] poised in midair, a mass of
fire of every conceivable color spreading on all sides and descending into
a rainbow shower to the surface of the mountain." Even more spectacular
events were seen in the vicinity of some ancient megalithic remains in the
neighborhood. From the ground, several multicolored columns of light sprang,
two to three meters high. One of these appeared to flutter, as if there
were some internal instability, and then started to produce spheres of light
which slowly rose up its length before exploding at the top. It has been
suggested that the people who once lived in these parts, over 3,000 years
ago, may have witnessed something similar, and, interpreting it as a supernatural
event, built stone edifices to mark the locations where the lights had appeared.
It is at least an intriguing possibility that these and certain other prehistoric
monuments were purposely erected close to where unusual, energetic events
take place on the planet. And this, in turn, provides at least a plausible
basis for the seemingly outlandish claims of a link between the flight paths
of UFOs, currents of energy flowing in the earth, and the arcane knowledge
of lost civilizations.

Drawing on reports from December 1904 to March 1905 of the lights near Egryn
and also those seen several kilometers to the north and south, writer and
independent researcher Paul Devereux plotted on a large-scale map the exact
location of each sighting. He then sought the advice of professional geologists
who pointed out the existence of a major, deep-seated fault, the Mochras
Fault, running north-south between the coastal towns of Harlech and Barmouth
and passing almost directly under the village of Egryn. When Devereux compared
the places where the earthlights had been observed with the path of the
fault he found a striking correlation: the reported sightings were strung
out like beads on a thread. Checking the geological records, Devereux learned
that the area had been subject to tremors immediately around and after the
occurrence of the lights, culminating in a minor earthquake under the southern
Welsh town of Swansea in 1906.1 Similar seismic activity in the
Cascade Mountains may have been responsible
for the "flying saucers" seen by Kenneth
Arnold in 1947.